Re: USB enclosure for a laptop IDE drive?

[Jerry Feldman]

On 12/31/2008 02:41 PM, Alex Hewitt wrote:

Bill McGonigle wrote:

On 2008-12-30 6:02 PM, ord...@gmail.com wrote:

On 12/30/08, Ben Scott<dragonh...@gmail.com>  wrote:

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Ted Roche<tedro...@tedroche.com>  wrote:

The folks at GotInk4You (*) sell a "USB 2.0 to SATA/IDE" cable&
connector pretty cheap ///

Not an enclosure but I've heard good things about this gizmo. Anyone
have any experience?

http://www.newertech.com/products/usb2_adaptv2.php

Mark

I have this one:

  http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812232002



-Bill

and it works perfectly. It looks very similar, I assume there's an OEM who makes them in customer plastic.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817153066

It only does SATA 2.5/3.5 drives but it's very nicely done...

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I have the same one Bill has but recently I found this "docking station" at Newegg and I'm very happy with it.

This is the unit I got for my 3.5 in IDE drive I removed from my old computer. I think I paid under $10.00 at MicroCenter.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001NACBEE?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&tag=nextag-ce-tier1-delta-20&linkCode=asn



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I don't know the brand of my 2.5in. Again this one I bought at MicroCenter for about $5.00. I think it depends on the use. The only reason I use the 3.5 in for is for temporary stuff because the drive is very loud. If you are planning on using it to recover some data then probably the cheap ones might serve you well, or if you plan to use it full time, you may want to consider things like heat dissipation.

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